Classical Release November 20th

harmonia mundi UK Classical new releases

NOVEMBER 2015

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available November 20th, call-off Nov 9th 2015

BBC RADIO 3 BUILDING A LIBRARY, 17/10Myrios MYR004 Sonatas for Viola & Piano Vol. 1: Rebecca Clarke; Vieuxtemps; BrahmsTabea Zimmermann; Kirill Gerstein

BBC MUSIC CHORAL & SONG CHOICE DECEMBERGRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE Awards issueHMC902217 Beethoven Lieder & BagatellenWerner Gura (tenor); Christoph Berner (fortepiano)

BBC MUSIC OPERA CHOICE DECEMBERGlossa GCD923505 Arias for Luigi MarchesiAnn Hallenberg, Stile Galante, Stefano Aresi

BBC MUSIC CONCERTO CHOICE NOVEMBERHMC902181/82 J.S. Bach Harpsichord ConcertosAndreas Staier; Freiburger Barockorchester; Petra Müllejans

GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE OCTOBERHMU807574 Scarlatti Con eco d’amoreLiz Watts; The English Concert; Laurence Cummings

BBC MUSIC CHAMBER CHOICE NOVEMBERHMC902219 Brahms, Schumann, Dietrich: Music for Violin+PianoIsabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov

RELEASE DATE20TH NOVEMBER 2015

Label: NAÏVEFile Under: Classical/OrchestralCatalogue No: OP30551Barcode: 709861305513NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackSergio Azzolini [bassoon]L’aura Soave Cremona

VIVALDI: Concerti per Fagotto IVBassoon Concertos RV 469, 491, 498, 492, 500, 473Sergio Azzolini L’aura Soave Cremona

As in the successful volumes 1-3 this is a very exciting recording, featuring the bassoon as you never heard before!The 54th release in the Vivaldi Edition features a selection of the finest works for bassoon ever composed, regardless of the instrument, this is a complete view of Vivaldi’s universe, performed by a true genius of baroque music.With each CD Azzolini proves himself to be an artist of endless immagination and virtuosity. With each new recording he surpasses the one before. A master...

ALSO AVAILABLE:OP30496 Vol. 1"This is music-making to cherish.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2010 OP30518 Vol. 2"Azzolini burbles and rasps away merrily, yet there's poetry aplenty in slow movements, where he displays anunsurpassed palette of tonal colour...[I] cannot imagine these concertos better played, with such infectious exuberance.”International Record Review, January 2012 "Has anyone ever grabbed hold of this music so wholeheartedly?” Gramophone Magazine, March 2012 OP30539 Vol. 3Gramophone Editor's Choice - April 2013“the utter master of the instrument, and surmounts the technical difficulties works such as the present six concertos poseto lesser mortals with enviable ease … all lovers of Baroque music will enjoy this.” Early Music Review, February 2013

“Azzolini is one of the most brilliant players of the baroque bassoon these days...it is not just his virtuosity which is impressive. In the slow movements he shows his capabilities in the realm of expression. The ensemble L'Aura Soave Cremona operates on the same wavelength.” MusicWeb International, 24th July 2013


Label: Onyx ClassicsFile Under: Classical/Opera &VocalCatalogue No: ONYX4158Barcode: 8800404158242 FOR 1.5 Format: 2 CDPackaging: cristalIvan Kusnjer [King Vladislav]Richard Samek [Dalibor, a Knight]Aleš Vorácek [Vitek, Dalibor’s messenger]Dana Burašová [Milada, sister of the Burgraveof Ploskovice]Alžbeta Polácková [Jitka, a country girl]Jan Stava [Benes, a jailor]Svatopluk Sem [Budivoj, commander of theking’s castle guard]

SMETANA: DaliborOpera in 3 Acts (1865-7, rev.1870) Libretto by Josef Wenzig & Ervín Špindler,Sung in CzechBBC Singers / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Jiri Belohlávek

Smetana’s tragic opera 'Dalibor' from 1868 is now acknowledged as a masterpiece, containing some of his greatestmusic. It tells a tale of knightly ideals, chivalry, love and loyalty, with striking echoes of Fidelio, the story transports us to15th-century Prague, where Dalibor is imprisoned having avenged the death of his musician friend Zdenk. The sister ofhis victim, Milada, is touched by his plight and disguises herself as a boy violinist in order to enter the gaol …Smetana, saddened by 'Dalibor’s cool reception ('too Wagnerian' was one of the charges against it) always had faith thatone day it would be appreciated and stand alongside 'The Bartered Bride', the work that overshadowed all his otheroperas to his great frustration.This superb performance of this rarely heard opera was recorded live in the Barbican Hall, London. Conducted by JiriBelohlávek, the all Czech cast and the BBC SO and BBC singers gave a performance that impressed all present, and thecritics praised the performance: "Smetana’s melodic invention is given full rein, with a rapturous second-act love duet asits high-point. Belohlávek’s conducting was warm and wonderfully spacious in those purple passages…the cast, allCzech, was a very fine one" The Guardian."A brilliant all-Czech performance...The pivotal duets were gloriously sung, while chorus and orchestra honoured the fullbeauty of the score."

ALSO AVAILABLE:HMC902119/20 Smetana - The Bartered Bride“an irresistible performance...Effervescent from overture to the finale, the BBC Symphony Orchestra plays with sheenystrings, while the BBC Singers deliver crisp and clear ensemble...although Dana Buresova and Tomas Juhas enjoy thesweetest melodies as the frustrated lovers, tenor Ales Voracek steals the show as the stuttering Vasek.” TheIndependent, 2nd December 2012 *****

ONYX4061 Martinu - The 6 Symphonies: BBCSO / Belohlavek“Play them back to back and the inevitable risk is that they may all begin to sound too much alike, but such is JiriBelohlavek's skill as a Martinu interpreter that the effect is still of impressive stylistic variety...In short, Belohlavek and theBBC SO are now my top recommendation for the Martinu symphonies” Gramophone Magazine, October 2011Gramophone Award Winner, 2012 Advertised in Gramophone and BBC Music Magazines


Label: Bel Air ClassiquesFile Under: Classical/Opera &VocalCatalogue No: BAC122Barcode: 3760115301221NORMAL PriceFormat: 2 DVDHermann, Landgraf von Thüringen: René PapeTannhäuser: Peter SeiffertWolfram von Eschenbach: Peter MatteiVenus: Marina PrudenskayaElisabeth: Ann PetersenWalther von der Vogelweide: Peter SonnBiterolf: Tobias SchabelHeinrich der Schreiber: Jürgen SacherReinmar von Zweter: Jan MartiníkEin Hirtenknabe: Sónia Grané

WAGNER: TannhäuserOpera in 3 acts: Dresden version including reference to Bachanals (Act 1, Scene 1) in the Paris version Stage direction & choreography: Sasha WaltzCostume design: Bernd SkodzigSet design: Pia Maier Schriever, Sasha WaltzLighting design: David FinnStaatskapelle Berlin / Daniel Barenboim

A brand new production of ‘Tannhäuser’ from the Staatsoper Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, staged andchoreographed by Sasha Waltz, who has brought to the stage this Romantic Wagner opera with a star cast of some oftoday's best Wagnerian singers: Peter Seiffert in the title role, Réne Pape as Landgraf and Peter Mattei as Wolfram, AnnPetersen sings Elisabeth and Marina Prudenskaya is Venus.

“A real feast of music! Where to begin, where to end with praise for this Tannhäuser at the Berlin Staatsoper in theSchillertheater? It sounds the way one has always dreamt of it but all too rarely heard it...It is with nuance and finebalance that Richard Wagner’s music now rises from the orchestra pit, borne aloft by brilliant singers. Peter Seiffert inparticular as Tannhäuser celebrates a true triumph..” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

"Staged by choreographer Sasha Waltz on a fantastic stage by Pia Maier Schriever with a circular tunnel of light in themanner of Hieronymus Bosch, the Berlin Tannhäuser deserves to be described as 'world-class'" Süddeutsche Zeitung

HD recording: Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin – 04/2014DVD Running time: 192 min.Booklet: FR / ANGL / ALL, Subtitles: FR / ANGL / ALL 16/9, NTSC, Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.1


Label: Bel Air ClassiquesFile Under: Classical/Opera &VocalCatalogue No: BAC422Barcode: 3760115304222NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 Blu-rayHermann, Landgraf von Thüringen: René PapeTannhäuser: Peter SeiffertWolfram von Eschenbach: Peter MatteiVenus: Marina PrudenskayaElisabeth: Ann PetersenWalther von der Vogelweide: Peter SonnBiterolf: Tobias SchabelHeinrich der Schreiber: Jürgen SacherReinmar von Zweter: Jan MartiníkEin Hirtenknabe: Sónia Grané

WAGNER: TannhäuserOpera in 3 acts: Dresden version including reference to Bachanals (Act 1, Scene 1) in the Paris version Stage direction & choreography: Sasha WaltzCostume design: Bernd SkodzigSet design: Pia Maier Schriever, Sasha WaltzLighting design: David FinnStaatskapelle Berlin / Daniel Barenboim

A brand new production of ‘Tannhäuser’ from the Staatsoper Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, staged andchoreographed by Sasha Waltz, who has brought to the stage this Romantic Wagner opera with a star cast of some oftoday's best Wagnerian singers: Peter Seiffert in the title role, Réne Pape as Landgraf and Peter Mattei as Wolfram, AnnPetersen sings Elisabeth and Marina Prudenskaya is Venus.

HD recording: Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin – 04/2014BLURAY Running time: 192 min.Booklet: FR / ANGL / ALL, Subtitles: FR / ANGL / ALL 16/9, Full HD, Audio:PCM 2.0, DTS HD Master Audio

“A real feast of music! Where to begin, where to end with praise for this Tannhäuser at the Berlin Staatsoper in theSchillertheater? It sounds the way one has always dreamt of it but all too rarely heard it...It is with nuance and finebalance that Richard Wagner’s music now rises from the orchestra pit, borne aloft by brilliant singers. Peter Seiffert inparticular as Tannhäuser celebrates a true triumph..” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

"Staged by choreographer Sasha Waltz on a fantastic stage by Pia Maier Schriever with a circular tunnel of light in themanner of Hieronymus Bosch, the Berlin Tannhäuser deserves to be described as 'world-class'" Süddeutsche Zeitung


Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/OrchestralCatalogue No: HMC902209Barcode: 3149020220924NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackEmmanuelle Bertrand [cello]Pascal Amoyel [piano*]Luzerner Sinfonieorchester James Gaffigan

Henri DUTILLEUX: Cello Concerto 'Tout un monde lointain'Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher (1976) DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata (1915)Emmanuelle BertrandLuzerner Sinfonieorchester James Gaffigan

Dutilleux, the centenary of whose birth we celebrate on 22 January 2016, made his appearance on earth just a fewmonths before the premiere of one of Debussy’s final compositions: the Cello Sonata presented on this disc. The filiationis a natural one, for at an early age fate placed Dutilleux under the auspices of the composer of 'Pelléas' and in thevicinity of the cello, which his brother played. Alongside a new recording of the famous 'Strophes sur le nom de Sacher',Emmanuelle Bertrand joins with her partners in the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester to pay an eagerly awaited tribute to the‘distant world’ hymned by the poems of Baudelaire and sublimely echoed by Dutilleux, the most sensitive composer ofour time. Written between 1967 and 1970 for Mstislav Rostropovich 'Tout un monde' is considered one of the most important20th-century additions to the cello repertoire and several major cellists have recorded it. Despite the fact that the scoredoes not state that it is a cello concerto, it has always been considered as such.


Label: Signum ClassicsFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: SIGCD445Barcode: 0635212044520NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: cristalRodolfusRalph Allwood

Time and its PassingWhere except in the present can the eternal be met? C. S. LewisRodolfusRalph Allwood

The Rodolfus Choir return to disc on Signum with a stunning new collection of choral works drawn from composersspanning over 500 years. Ralph Allwood MBE introduces the programme and the personal inspiration behind it:"The concept of time is so rich that it has inspired a large body of writing and musical setting.This collection is a tribute to my father, because I learnt so much about time from him. Mathematician and philosopher,theologian, musician and physicist, he was fascinated by our perception of time, and he and I had many discussionsabout its nature. In a trivial sense, music traces the passage of time, but also, as with all events, manipulates it. A watchtraces a different pattern of time during events. But who is to say that the watch is ‘right’."

TAVENER:O, Do Not Move, TALLIS: Thou Wast, O God, G.JACKSON: To Morning, CHAPMAN: The Three Ravens,PART: Nunc dimittis, FINZI: Haste On, My Joys! KODALY: Esti dal (Evening Song),PART: Which Was The Son Of ... BYRD: Diliges Dominum, GIBBONS: What Is Our Life? RECKNELL: Ozymandias, CRUFT: These Hours, LEY: A Prayer of King Henry VI, HOWELLS: Even Such is Time,ROWARTH: The Evening Watch, TALLIS: Miserere nostri, PARRY: Music, When Soft Voices Die,VICTORIA: Lux aeterna, BACH: Et incarnatus est


Label: AuditeFile Under: Classical/SecularVocal musicCatalogue No: AUDITE95741Barcode: 4022143957412NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipacksopranos: Erna Berger, Elisabeth Grümmer,Margot Guilleaume , Ursula Lüders, Lisa Otto, Maria Reith, Rita Streich , GunthildWeberaltos: Josephine Varga, Annelies Westenbaritone: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskautenor: Walther LudwigRadio Orchester Berlin,RIAS-Unterhaltungsorchester A RIAS StudioorchesterGünther Arndt/Fried Walter/Hans Carste

Vom Himmel hoch... Christmas CarolsErna Berger, Elisabeth Grümmer, Rita Streich, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Es blüh’n drei Rosen • Da droben auf dem Berge • Und unser lieben Frauen • Maria durch ein’n Dornwald ging • Maria auf dem Berge • Schlaf, mein Kindelein • Schlaf wohl, du Himmelsknabe du • Stille Nacht • Die Himmelsbotschaft ist erklungen • Joseph, lieber Joseph mein • Zu Bethlehem geboren • Christlied • Es wird schon gleich dunkel • Das himmlische Menuett • O Jesulein zart • Wiegenlied in der Weihnacht • Kommt all herein, ihr Engelein • O Jesulein mild, o Jesulein zart • Lobt Gott, ihr Christen allzugleich • Ich steh’ an deiner Krippen hier • Gelobet seist du, Jesus Christ • Vom Himmel hoch, ihr Engel kommt • Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen • Ave Maria zart, du edler Rosengart •Süßer die Glocken nie klingen • Vom Himmel hoch

Producing atmospheric Christmas programmes in the 1950s fell into the remit of radio stations: records with festive musicwere not available during the early post-war years. For RIAS, the Berlin radio station under American control, the early1950s were the heyday in this respect. Year after year, distinguished singers, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and RitaStreich, Erna Berger, Elisabeth Grümmer and many others, were engaged to performfor these radio shows. This disc presents the impressive results of these recordings made between 1950 and 1964.Most carols on this disc are folksongs or folk-like. Their simple, catchy tunes, setting words from Martin Luther’s timethrough to the 20th century, tell of naïve piety. Renowned composers and church musicians of the 1950s produced,mostly for such Christmas programmes, tasteful arrangements of these carols. The spectrum of arrangements on thisdisc stretches from sparing but emphatic lute dabs right up to the onomatopoeicexpansion of orchestral sonorities which do not shy away from a nod towards Puccini. The fact that all these diverseChristmas offerings were produced without the slightest whiff of sentimentality is largely due to the performers whotransformed these miniatures into little gems.Berlin, 1950-1964


Label: MirareFile Under: Classical/OrchestralCatalogue No: MIR162Barcode: 3760127221623NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackIl Convito, Maude Gratton

W.F.BACH: Harpsichord Concertos Maude Gratton

Overshadowed by his father, Johann Sebastian, and his brothers Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christian, the musicof Wilhelm Friedemann Bach provides a bridge between the high art of the first and expressive tendencies of Sturm undDrang. His Harpsichord Concertos, as performed here by Maude Gratton [of the Ricercar Consort] and Il Convito, offer avery successful synthesis of these two trends.

ALSO AVAILABLE:MIR088 W.F.Bach - Fantaisies, Fugues, Polonaises...(harpsichord Philippe Humeau, Barbaste 2006; clavichord MartinKather 1999)"This is the best single selection of W F Bach’s keyboard music I’ve yet heard...playing of real purpose and subtlety, andmusic that demands to be heard.“Fabrice Fitch, Gramophone, Awards 2009


Label: La Dolce VoltaFile Under: Classical/ChambermusicCatalogue No: LDV23Barcode: 3770001901428NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackNicolas Dautricourt [violin Antonio Stradivarius(Cremona, 1713), the Château Fombrauge]J.Pohjonen [piano]Orquestra Vigo 430, A. Garrido Porras [direction]

SIBELIUS: Humoresques Op.87 & 89, Sérénades Op.69 Suite Op.117, Pièces op.2, 77 & 81Nicolas Dautricourt

La Dolce Volta presents a recording entirely devoted to an almost unknown part of the output of Sibelius.

Through accidents of programming, Nicolas Dautricourt happened to discover a number of pieces that were new to him,including the Finnish composer’s 'Humoresques'. In the course of time he explored the rest of these pieces, alongside hissymphonic music. They seemed to him, like Sibelius’s output as a whole, to be highly individual, in a wholly personalvein, deriving from no earlier ‘school’ and distinct from any other musical language.

Fascinated by this extraordinary independence of mind, Nicolas Dautricourt reveals a more secret, more intimaterepertory, in which virtuosity is of secondary importance. Of course, the violin can still dazzle, but the general mood ismore confidential, closer to chamber music, with the primary emphasis on colours and impressions.


Label: Praga DigitalsFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: PRD250316Barcode: 3149028072228NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: cristal Czech Soloists [winds]Orch. Phil. Radio TV Moscou, Gennady RozhdestvenskyGerhardt WiesenhutterTomas Koutnik

Masterpieces For Piano Left Hand Vol.2dedicated to Otakar Hollmann

JANACEK: Capriccio [Ivan Klansky]MARTINU: Concertino H173 [Siegfried Rapp]BRAHMS: Chaconne in D min [Walter Klien]STRAUSS: Parergon sur Sinfonia Domestica, Piano Concerto Op. 73 [Tatyana Nikolayeva]

Otakar Hollmann (1894-1967) was a Czech pianist who was notable in the repertoire for left-handed pianists. Althoughlittle known now, he was considered second only to Paul Wittgenstein in the promotion of the repertoire. Hecommissioned works from a number of composers, most notably Janácek and Martinu. He initially studied as a violinist,but, during World War I, a bullet went through his right palm, injuring the metacarpus. Hollmann premiered the 'Capriccio'in Prague on 2 March 1928. Other Czech composers who wrote works for him, include Erwin Schulhoff, BohuslavFoerster, Jaroslav Tomášek, Václav Kaprál, Stanko Rajcic, Jaroslav Rídký, Josef Bartovsky, Aleš Jermár, VincencStastny and Jarmil Burghauser


Label: Praga DigitalsFile Under: Classical/ChambermusicCatalogue No: PRD250310Barcode: 3149028043624NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: cristalGuarneri Trio Prague

SCHUBERT: Trios Op. 99 and 100Guarneri Trio Prague

These ‘twins’ from the final period offer two portraits of the composer of 'Winterreise'; one is meant to be radiant andconvivial, the other is that of the solitary walker, wandering amidst his memories, sometimes those of Schubertiads,where he was the driving force, accompanying singers or musicians in timeless evenings of friendship.

“the performances of these two perennial works are vibrantly alive. Their account (of the B flat trio) is robust and stronglyaccented, though also responsive to the music’s charm and delicacy.”David Cairns, The Sunday Times, 21 March 2004


Label: WergoFile Under: Classical/OrchestralCatalogue No: WER5112-2Barcode: 4010228511222NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDTonkünstler-Orchester,Alondra de la Parra [conductor]Friedrich M. Dosch, Enjott Schneider [sound design]

Enjott SCHNEIDER: Erdgebunden – EarthboundVol. 3

Dark World Untersberg. Symphony No. 7 for orchestraSounds of Nature: Hommage à Sergiu Celibidache für strings and tapeAutumn Milk. Orchestral SuiteThe Expulsion. Orchestral Suite

Nature, as an untamed world little touched by human civilization, has always been a source of inspiration for painters,musicians, and poets. The eternal and unchanging natural cycle of growth and decay has always been seen as areflection of the divine or the “Great Spirit”. In fairy tales, myths, and sagas, people have sought for thousands of years tomake the secrets of creation comprehensible and directly accessible. The compositions of Enjott Schneider on this CDapproach nature in various ways: In the Seventh Symphony “Dunkelwelt Untersberg” [The Dark World of Untersberg], themyths surrounding a legendary table mountain in the Alps are examined musically.“Naturklänge” [Sounds of Nature] is about pure sound as a natural phenomenon and about Claude Debussy’s impressiveexperience of the world, with the fascination with the “sea” expressing here the connection we feel to our planet Earth.In the two orchestral suites, being “bound to the earth” is expressed as a love for a native land or landscape. In“Herbstmilch” [Autumn Milk], it is the homeland of Lower Bavaria; in “Flucht” [Flight], it is the magical spaciousness ofEast Prussia. Home is any place where people are able to be a speechless part of nature; as a Siberian saying says,“Home is not where you know the trees, but where the trees know you!”The music for this film received the German Television Prize for “Best Film Score” in 2009. Viktor Rotthaler wrote in theNeue Musikzeitung (3/2007), “With his wonderful melancholy score for 'Die Flucht', Enjott Schneider has in any caseachieved a great triumph … a score orchestrated with great finesse.”

ALSO AVAILABLE:WER5110-2 MetamorphosenWER5111-2 China meets Europe

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